Anyone interested? I am! Rather more than by the Rattle / Berlin / LSO story...
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Good spot, Cals
Think it got a mention on In Tune tonight.
Gotta love the transfer window.....
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Yes - just home and going to grab some Live Lighthouse action on our beloved R3!Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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That gives me an opportunity to praise the BSO and conductor Kyrill Karabits for their electric eel of a "Le Corsaire" overture. It was full of vim, vigour and sharply etched rhythms. Tunes were well salted and the the whole performance was invigorating. One of the better performances of a piratical overture that I've experienced. I enjoyed the Chopin piano concerto, too, but, by then I was in less critical over-hearing mode as I was busy cooking bass - from the sea, naturally!Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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Hope your bass was a well salted as their tunes!!!Originally posted by edashtav View Post
I think teamsaint will be posting his ear-witness review over the next few days, so we await his verdict on the musical seasoning in general. Sounded a very nice saucy slice of Schumann to me (I only heard the last movement, as it turned out!).
More tangent than topic, this thread! Wonder if any Nott or OSR fans will come on
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Great that an English conductor, albeit one who has been abroad for a while, and without a fancy name (!) has landed a prestigious post.
Jonathan Nott (born 25 December 1962, Solihull, England) is an English conductor. The son of a priest at Worcester Cathedral, he was a music student and choral scholar at the University of Cambridge, and also studied singing and flute in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music. Nott was also a conducting student in London. He left Britain to develop his conducting career in Germany via the traditional Kapellmeister system
...and thou, Solihull, in the land of the West Midlands, art not the least, etcComment
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Ah, that puts paid to the LSO theory then! People I hear are still going on about Rattle going to the LSO. Although I do hear from inside the LSO, that not happening.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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I may have rambled on about super K in Bournemouth too much, I should have added that I'm a Nott admirer - he's been very effective in Bamberg and has been able to programme plenty of contemporary music. Five years in Switzerland and he should be ready for the Best of British.Comment
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I think of him in the same category in my brain as Owen Hargreaves, former England midfielder who played most of his career for German teams.Originally posted by ardcarp View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Can it be that Simon Rattle will now be sold to Man United....only for it to be found almost immediately that he has a debilitating groin injury; leading to premature retirement....bong chingComment
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